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On the recordJuly 10, 2018
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 145 Ex.] YEAS--72 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hyde-Smith Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Reed Roberts Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--27 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Lankford Moran Paul Portman Risch Rounds Sasse Scott Sullivan Thune NOT VOTING--1 McCain The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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